Effect of different swallow time intervals on the nutcracker esophagus

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-45

  Brito, Eliza Maria ^a   Camacho Lobato, Luciana ^a   Paoletti, Vera ^a   Gideon, Mathew ^a   Katz, Philip O ^a   Castell, Donald O ^a,b  

^a GRADUATE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWALLOWING;

ADULT; AGED; DEGLUTITION; ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PERISTALSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037259134     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2003.07181.x     Document Type: Article

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